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HOOK. No. 897,157. Patented Feb. 5, 1889 ilmrno TATES PATENT CORNELIUS S. FAN WAGONER, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,157, dated February 5, 1889. Application filed May 29, 1888. Serial No. 275,429. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: ing a symmetrical loop, affording at c a bear- Be it known that I, CORNELIUS S. VAN ing-sur'face, which, when the hook is mounted \VAGONER, of the city of Brooklyn, in the in position, abuts firmly against the ceiling. county of Kings and State of New York, have A screw-threaded shank, (7, at one end of the 5 invented certain new and useful Improvewire, is abovcthc hook a, and at its base the mentsin Overhead orCeiling Hooks for Vardwire is offset to afford a bearing-surface, d, robes, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the and above tliehook b there is an eye, 6, at the following specification, taken in connection other end of the wire, which is bent to afford with the drawings furnished and forming a a bearing-surface, as at e.

10 part of the same, is a clear, truc,and complete The hook, as thus far described, can be redescription of m y invention. lied upon foret'ficientservice, and it embodies The object of my invention is to provide a my invention; but I sometimes modify it at double hook composed of bent wire having a the shank and eye by bending the wire so specially d esirable symmetrical form, and that each will project laterally in opposite di- I 5 having great strength with but little weight rections from the plane occupied by the main of metal, and one which can be readily seportion of the hook, as indicated in dotted cured in position for service without liability lines in Fig. 2, for enabling the hook to be of displacement, however heavily loaded it 1 better able to resist such blows or strains as may be, under the use intended. I accommight otherwise deflect it to the one side or 20 plish these ends by the use of a single length the other; but this may also be accomplished of wire of suitable size and quality, and bendby leaving the terminals as shown, and using ing the same so as to form two connected a greater length of wire, so that the loop or hooks standing back to back, each hook being bend between the books can be providedwith composed of two lines of wire substantially a straight lateral central bearing-surfacaas 25 corresponding in contour, the rear one of said indicated by the dotted lines ,in the middle of 7 5 lines being continuous from hook to hook and the hook shown in Fig. 2. having the terminals of the wire provided In some cases I employ two eyes instead of with a screw-shank above one hook and a an eye and a screw-threaded shank, thus rescrew-eye above the other. A hook of this taining the advantages of the hooks standing o kind is readily applied for service by turning back to back and containing the two lines of the screw-shank into the wood of a ceiling or wire, as described. the top surface of the interior of a wardrobe I am aware that hooks for overhead duty until a proper bearing is had with or against have heretofore been formed in part of wire an offset, preferably provided at the base of bent into form more or less approximating to 3 5 the threaded shank, and then a screw or the form of the lower portion of my hook; barbed nail is driven into the wood through but said prior hooks have essentially cmthe eye. bodied specially-formed metal brackets, with- To more particularly describe my invention, out which the wire portion could not be I will refer to the accompanying drawings, in mounted for use, and in said prior hooks no 40 which portions of the wire served as bearing-con- 0 Figures 1 and 2 illustrate in side and top tacts with the ceiling, whereas in my hook views one of my hooks. the upper side of the central portion of the The two hooks a and I) stand back to back wire and also portions of both terminals afin the same plane, and each is composed of ford parallel bearing-surfaces for contact with 45 two lines of wire, 0 and 0', these conforming the ceiling, so that when mounted for use so nearly in contour as to ait'ord a substanthey may be rigidly confined in place. tially uniform space between them, although Having thus described inyinvention,Iclaim said space is slightly widened at both the tip as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentand shank of each hook. The inner lines of 1. An overhead or ceiling hook composed 50 wire, 0, of both hooks are continuous, formof a length of wire bent and forming two I00 connected hooks standing back to back, the ha ving the wire in eeeh arranged in twolines wire in each being in two lines substantially corresponding in contour, and having at one end of thewire :1 screw-t llrended shank above one of the hooks and an eye at the other end above the other hook, snlwtantinlly as de seribed.

2. An overhead or eeiling hook composed of a length of wire bent and forming two ro connected hooks standing back to back, and

eorrespolnling in contour, and also having at the top of the hook a eentrnl bearing-sinii'nee for emrtaetwith ceiling and similar parallel hem-ing surl'mes in both terminals of the wire 1 above the hooks, substantially as deseribed.

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